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It might be February already, but Amazon and Apple were still ringing in the holidays this week with reports of blowout fourth-quarter sales. Earnings were less merry for Facebook and Samsung.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a public health emergency; the UK gave China’s Huawei the go-ahead to build noncore parts of the country’s 5G network; and Boeing’s new 777X, with its folding wingtips, completed its first flight.

Here are the week’s stories you don’t want to miss:

In almost 30 interviews across the state, locals said Facebook is the most untrustworthy of all the social networks when it comes to political news.

The cloud leaks your data like crazy.